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One thing I love about Reade is how she peppers her speech with quotes from obscure period novels. “Land O’Goshen, Prudence!” “Jeepers Daisy, but don’t I wish.” Stuff like that.

Well, well, well…it appears that our Reade may have a soft spot in her heart for a certain knucklehead. Let’s see how this one plays out, shall we? Will it even play out, with Eleanor out searching for Nelson? What if she finds him, and he’s…

I also love the references you’re talking about. I’ve no chance of pinpointing them, but they do so much to give Reade a personality. Also, may I applaud your pose work. Some of the best, most organic stuff I’ve seen. And not just on this page.

Yeah-“October 20th: THe Musical” “You’ll fall in love, all over again.”
Someday I’m going to repay the colossal favor you did and make that happen.

Okay, I have a confession to make. Those references? They’re not really from anything. I made ’em up. Reade is like Stephanie-sometimes I don’t know what she’s going to say until I’m letting her dialogue.
And that pose in panel two…I had drawn Reade in a completely different pose, and it just didn’t work. But it was finished. I had to erase the whole darn thing and redo it, and now I really love it. Thank you.
Because I read so may cool webcomics where the artists do such natural things with their characters, I really have to try to keep up.

I love all the body language going on here. It really shows the personality of the characters, their attitudes about the situation, AND it directs the eye across the page! Beautiful! Ah, when love is in the air…at least until Eleanor shows up!

Thank you! Vatican Assassins is one of the strips that make me more aware of body language. You’re an inspiration, you know.
And love could be in the air when Eleanor shows up. Not what you and I would call love, of course…

I’m trying to figure out what those flowers are. Marigolds, perhaps? I wouldn’t put it past Eleanor to know what those flowers represent and sent a bouquet of them anyway. She does seem to enjoy giving people “grief”.

They’re whatever flowers I could make with squiggly ink brushed lines. They started out as sort of roses, but once I began inking, they just kind of drew themselves.
But yeah, Eleanor could send them, not to give grief, but to send some hidden message.
And maybe she did.

Well, count me as dense but who is Daisy and what is it about the flowers? Message? I have no clue.
Just how did the Dubbleman twins wind up with Eleanor? I must have missed something. Were they not abandoned or something?

Her name isn’t really Daisy. That’s just an expression that Reade uses, like “Land O’Goshen, Prudence.”
She’s Reade’s soon to be ex-employee. I didn’t have space for it, but her husband’s in the Navy, and they’re getting transferred.

And we’ll may touch on how Eleanor got the Dubblemen Twins sometime, but it’s gonna be a while.

I have to grin at seeing the author of the romance novel in the window. 🙂 And I’m trying to decide who is the subject of “ME (Vol. IV).” At first I thought it was the new character, as the face is similar – but no, it’s not her. And it looks nothing like Eleanor. Nor Anya or her family. So either it’s someone we’ve not yet met, or it’s just a funny object to amuse the readers (us, that is).

What is that bubble of distortion over Reade’s elbow in Panel 2? It looks like a soap bubble or a lens, but there’s no reason for its existence. It puzzles me.

Reade’s wearing one of her short plaid skirts. Cellulite? Did I goof up on her legs?

The author of the book is Jacob and Esther’s mom, Francesca Dubbleman. We met her here.
It’s a book of poetry about her feelings. All her books of poetry are about her feelings. The guy with the backwards cap was reading one here.

The bubble of distortion is supposed to be a glass vase, for the flowers. The hand that’s holding it is kind of goofed up.

Thank you. I love that pose in panel two. And Reade actually getting upset about something. She’s usually so sarcastically calm about stuff.

“I assume she knows…” something that you’ll find out in the next few strips. I can say no more.